Shane Drake

Shane C. Drake is an American music video director originally from Redding, California. He has directed videos for bands such as Trivium, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Flo Rida, Timbaland, Blindside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Almost, Hawthorne Heights, and many more.

Early in his career, Drake spent time working as an editor and cinematographer with such bands as Poison the Well, Deftones, Thursday, and many more. He now spends most of his time directing. As of 2006, Drake has directed more than 50 music videos and co-produced three films. He owns Red Van Pictures a Los Angeles based Production Company.

Awards

In 2006 Drake was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for Panic at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies".[1] In 2007 Drake was nominated for the MTV Monster Single of the Year for his video for Timbaland's "The Way I Are". In 2008, he has been nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video with Panic at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" and MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video with Paramore's "Crushcrushcrush" and also Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It". In 2009 Drake was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for his video for Paramore's "Decode" off the Twilight Movie Soundtrack.

Music Videography

2004

• Fall Out Boy - "Saturday"
• Hawthorne Heights - "Ohio Is For Lovers"
• mewithoutYou - "January 1979"
• Silverstein - "Smashed Into Pieces"

2005

• Paramore - "Pressure"
• My American Heart - "The Process"
• Blindside - "Fell In Love With The Game"
• Trivium - "A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation"
• Still Remains - "The Worst Is Yet To Come"
• The Audition - "You've Made Us Conscious"
• June - "Patrick"
• Between The Buried And Me- "Alaska"

2006

• Showbread - "Oh! Emetophobia!"
• Mewithoutyou - "Nice And Blue (Part 2)"
• Gia Farrell - "Hit Me Up"
• Trick Daddy feat. Chamillionaire - "Bet That"
• Head Automatica - "Lying Through Your Teeth"
• Less Than Jake -"The Rest Of My Life"
• Gym Class Heroes - "The Queen And I"
• Paramore - "Emergency"
• An Angle - "Green Water"
• Moneen - "If Tragedy's Appealing, Then Disaster's An Addiction"
• Needtobreathe - "You Are Here"
• Panic! at the Disco - "But It's Better If You Do"
• Panic! at the Disco - "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
• Jonezetta - "Get Ready (Hot Machete)"

2007

• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "False Pretense"
• Paramore - "Misery Business"
• The Almost - "Southern Weather"
• The Rocket Summer - "So Much Love"
• Say Anything - "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too"
• The Almost - "Say This Sooner"
• The Higher - "Insurance?"
• The Cheetah Girls "So This Is Love"
• New Years Day - "I Was Right"
• Timbaland ft. D.O.E and Keri Hilson - "The Way I Are"
• Angels & Airwaves - "Everything's Magic"
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "Your Guardian Angel"
• Paramore - "crushcrushcrush"
• Plain White T's - "Our Time Now"
• Paul Van Dyk - "Let Go"

2008

• Panic at the Disco - "Nine in the Afternoon"
• Forever the Sickest Kids - "Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)"
• Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer - "Beat It"
• Flo Rida ft. Will.I.Am - "In The Ayer"
• Shwayze - "Corona & Lime"
• Plain White T's starring Tiffany Dupont - "Natural Disaster"
• Paramore - "Decode"

2009

• Madina Lake - "Never Take Us Alive"
• Flo Rida ft Wynter Gordon - "Sugar"
• Darius Rucker - "History in the Making"
• The Almost - "The Lonely Wheel"
• The Almost - "Hands"
• Honor Society - "Over You"

2010

• Laura Bell Bundy - "Giddy On Up"
• Papa Roach - "Kick in the Teeth"

External links

• Red Van Pictures - Shane Drake Official Website
• mvdbase.com - Shane C. Drake Videography
• I Write Sins Not Tragedies page at MTV Video Music Awards site.